Mental Illness: When the Security of Childhood is Shattered
“Hello, Ezer Mizion calling…” My knees buckled. My blood ran cold. Mentally, I counted my kids. I had just spanked my two-year-old for running in...
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Chosen Eats: Build a Better Burger from the Top Down
Burgers are blank canvases that I usually paint with the same colors: ketchup, mustard, and pickles. But recently, I had a burger epiphany. A few...
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Food
Restarting the peace process: Everyone has a role to play
"The most important interest of our nation," Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni said last March, is a two-state solution. This kind of plan would...
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Israel & Overseas
Not so different? MIT Computer Scientists Meet Israel
Thursday was our second day of visiting high-tech companies and Technion labs. I am writing this blog post about our Thursday adventures at a table...
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Israel & Overseas
A Week in Dnepropetrovsk
Posted by: Peggy Kaufman I am writing this in the airport in Kiev during a six-hour layover in my return travels from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine to...
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The Debrief: Making Jewish Sexuality Both Public and Private
Ayo Oppenheimer, 27, is the founder and editor of Jewrotica.org, an online hub for Jewish sexual expression from Torah commentaries to erotic stories. Today she...
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Growing up, my parents used to give money gifts in multiples of 18. I know this number, chai, has a special significance to the Jews, but I don't know why. What's so special about it?
Growing up, my parents used to give money gifts in multiples of 18. I know this number, chai, has a special significance to the Jews,...
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Judaism & Spirituality
Multiple Identities: The Portrayal of Jewish American Women in Film
With the sweltering heat in Boston recently, I needed something to keep me entertained as I sat directly in front of the air conditioner, desperately...
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Arts & Culture
5 Ways to Tweet Your Way to the Top (of the Job Application Pile)
By: Alyson Weiss, Social Media Specialist At the beginning of every episode of the wildly popular America's Next Top Model, retired supermodel Tyra Banks asks,...
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20s & 30s
Travel and Belonging and Israel (My Neocolonialist Qualms)
Where do we need to go?Cambodia is a beautiful country full of monks in saffron robes, heartbreakingly poor children, and tourists with cameras.I know this...
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